a.
What we are
is badly-written poetry in motion.

b.
The world groans
under the weight of our unfulfilled wishes.

c.
We were born knowing how to lie.
We die without knowing the truth.

d.
Even if I knew where to find you,
I'd look in all the wrong places anyway.

e.
If this is all there is,
then how can we think and love?

f.
How do we achieve the balance between
who we are and who we want to be?

g.
I can't believe I trusted you
when you said you trusted me.

h.
Gravity is what we invented
to explain to ourselves why we can't fly.

i.
Wake me when it's over.

j.
Nothing can ruin you
unless you let it.

k.
Like drowning men, we grasp at straws
to break the camel's back.

l.
Would it kill you to care
as much as I did/do?

m.
I write because I'm broken in a broken world,
and my fragmented words might save us.

n.
Cast this improbable bottle with its sad message into the sea;
hope the ink fades before it reaches a distant shore.

o.
When all seemed lost, a window in heaven opened
and I found you.

p.
I miss
who I wish you were.

q.
Fall, hoping that the safety cord will work,
and that instead of plummeting, you float.

r.
It's a letter in a word in a sentence that doesn't exist
and wouldn't've made sense anyway.

s.
No-one ever told me it would be like this,
that it would hurt like this.

t.
It seemed like a good idea
at the time.

u.
I thought I was the one
asking the questions.

v.
I am a thrillseeker,
nothing more.

w.
The leaves die, fall from the trees and crumple,
crumble beneath our booted feet.
Destruction was never so beautiful.

x.
You broke me
and said you did it out of love.

y.
I never said that
this would be it.

z.
I believed you.
What's more, you believed me.